This was the film playing as part of a double bill at the Texas Theater in Dallas when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested there on November 22, 1963 for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the murder of police officer J.D. Tippit. The other half of the double feature, War Is Hell (1961), was the film playing during the arrest. It is suspected that "Cry of Battle" did not actually screen that day, as the theater closed for a few days following the arrest.
Van Heflin also starred in the similarly titled BATTLE CRY (1955).